Vares: Private Eye
| Vares: Private Eye | |
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| Directed by | Aleksi Mäkelä |
| Screenplay by | Pekka Lehtosaari |
| Produced by | Markus Selin |
| Starring | Juha Veijonen Laura Malmivaara Samuli Edelmann Pekka Valkeejärvi Kari Hietalahti Jorma Tommila |
| Cinematography | Pini Hellstedt |
| Edited by | Kimmo Taavila |
| Music by | Kalle Chydenius |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Finland |
| Language | Finnish |
| Budget | €1.5 million[1] |
| Box office | €1,549,176[2] |
Vares: Private Eye (Template:Lang-fi) is a 2004 Finnish crime film directed by Aleksi Mäkelä. It is based on the novel Keltainen leski by Reijo Mäki.[3] The setting is Turku, a city on the west coast of Finland. It stars Juha Veijonen as private detective Jussi Vares who investigates a case involving a large amount of dirty money. The film is the first of eight films in the Vares series. The first sequel, V2: Dead Angel, was released in 2007.
Cast
- Juha Veijonen as Jussi Vares
- Laura Malmivaara as Eeva Sunila
- Samuli Edelmann as Mikko Koitere
- Pekka Valkeejärvi as Jari "Hillosilmä" Munck
- Kari Hietalahti as Tetsuo Sinkkonen
- Jorma Tommila as Antero Kraft
- Minna Turunen as Ifigenia Multanen
- Jari Halonen as Karl E. Miesmann
- Markku Peltola as Luusalmi
- Jasper Pääkkönen as Jarmo
- Santeri Kinnunen as Touko Reiman
- Heli Sutela as Liisa, Eeva's friend
- Georges Copeloussis as Gennadi Antipov
- Topias Tanska as Jaakko
References
- ^ "Vares". ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ "Facts & Figures 2004" (PDF). ses.fi. The Finnish Film Foundation. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ "Vares - Private Eye". solarfilms.com. Solar Films Inc. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ "Vares (2004) – Credits". elonet.fi. National Audiovisual Archive / Finnish Board of Film Classification. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
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